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GENUS OPHIOGLOSSUM

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Meaning:

The type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae

Synonyms:

genus Ophioglossum; Ophioglossum

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Ophioglossum" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "genus Ophioglossum"):

adder's tongue; adder's tongue fern (ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue)

Holonyms ("genus Ophioglossum" is a member of...):

family Ophioglossaceae; Ophioglossaceae (a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution)

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